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Rock Stars Take on Transgender Agenda
A rock and roll legend is taking on woke culture and the transgender agenda, despite the backlash. In an interview last week with Stereogum, shock-rocker Alice Cooper shared his thoughts on how ridiculous woke culture is. “The whole woke thing … who’s making the rules?” he asked. “Is there a building somewhere in New York where people… -
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The World’s Second-Largest Economy Is Struggling
China‘s economy, the world’s second largest after America’s, is struggling months after the communist regime ended its stringent zero-COVID policy. “China’s economic success was largely down to its size and the speed of its abundant inexpensive labor to produce,” Andrew Hale, senior policy analyst in trade policy at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal… -
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Missouri Attorney General Breaks Down State’s Battle Against ‘Child Mutilation’
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey spent the last week battling for the state’s law protecting children from irreversible transgender interventions, both surgical and hormonal. “We’re winning this fight and it’s important to keep fighting and pushing forward not to give up one inch of space in order to protect kids,” he stressed. The attorney general… -
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Mayors Who Cut Police Budgets Get Their Own Security Details
Police departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as those mayors cut funding and positions in those departments. The Los Angeles Police Department’s more than $1.8 billion budget initially was cut by $150 million in 2020 (a portion of the cut was restored in 2021), eliminating… -
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3 Supreme Court Cases Could Shake Up the Administrative State
The major theme of the coming Supreme Court term is administrative law. Once obscure, this body of statutes, rules, and cases governing the structure and conduct of the federal government’s administrative agencies gained public attention through recent eye-catching cases—like the ones that downed the student loan cancellation plan and set aside the clean power plan… -
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More Courts Uphold Bans on ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care for Minors. Is Supreme Court Next Stop?
Activist judges who believe the propaganda on “lifesaving” “gender-affirming” care for minors are weeping into their lattes this month as a second federal appellate court has just upheld a duly enacted state law banning these practices for children. A few short weeks after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld Tennessee’s law… -
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‘Blood on His Hands’: Florida Democrat Blames DeSantis’ Anti-Woke Policies for Jacksonville Shooting
The Democrat who represents the area of Jacksonville, Florida, where a 21-year-old white man gunned down three black men, blamed Gov. Ron DeSantis for inspiring the shooting. “This is a governor who has done nothing but fan, fan these types of happenings throughout our state,” Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon said Sunday on MSNBC. “Look,… -
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California AG Sues School District to Stop Policy That Informs Parents of Student Gender Transitions
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Monday against the Chino Valley Unified School District for approving a policy that requires school officials to inform parents if their child wants to change their gender. The district’s board of education approved the policy in July after many parents weighed in, some in favor and some against, but… -
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Left Seizes Election Worker Training Organization
A nonpartisan organization that trains election workers from across the country is now being run by two liberal voting activists—one who previously worked for the nonprofit that distributed hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s election grants during the 2020 elections. The grants were supposedly to “help” local governments run elections, but most of… -
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This Global Gathering Embraces China, Russia in Advancing Communist Agenda
You may never have heard of the Foro de São Paulo, since Western media tend to ignore it, but it’s the world’s largest and most impactful Marxist international organization. The latest São Paulo Forum gathering demonstrated how pro-China and pro-Russia this radical body is, and how it retails its winning blueprint throughout the world. Rubbing elbows at… -
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Ron DeSantis Takes a Step Back From the Campaign Trail
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has shifted his focus from the 2024 presidential campaign trail as Floridians deal with a horrific tragedy and a tropical storm heads toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to land as a Category 3 hurricane. “In the face of the tragedy in Jacksonville and the impending major hurricane, Ron DeSantis is focused… -
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Fulton County DA’s Anti-Trump ‘Smoking Gun’ Is a Toy Pistol
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be drooling. In a dark day for America, Democrats made President Joe Biden’s chief political rival fly to their stronghold of Atlanta, surrender to law-enforcement officials, and get photographed and fingerprinted like a common criminal. Consequently, Willis and her fellow Democrats now boast a mugshot of former President… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Women Speak Out Against YMCA ‘Transgender’ Bathroom Policies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Small-town YMCAs in suburban Ohio have launched themselves headfirst into the transgender debate by allowing men who "identify" as women to access women's locker rooms. And women who have belonged to these supposedly family-friendly YMCAs for years are discovering, to their shock, that management considers their safety and privacy inferior… -
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‘For Me, the Glass Is Always Half Full,’ Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Says
“The American dream is alive and well,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, says, “but only if we work at it.” “We must continue to work,” Sears says. “We must make sure that our children understand that they must take their place in society, that their job is no less than preserving America for the next… -
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Court Lets State Protect Kids From Transgender ‘Care,’ Making Key Point About Evidence
A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing "conflicting and unclear" medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. "The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear," Judge Stephen R. Ohmer ruled. "Accordingly, the evidence raises more questions than answers." Three Missouri… -
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The Economic Benefits of School Choice
It’s back to school this week for Florida students and many others across the country. The first days and weeks of a new school year are always filled with anticipation, adjustments, transitions, and growth for parents and students. Yet, this school year’s “firsts” for an expanding pool of families also includes the first time that… -
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Busing Illegal Immigrants to Blue America Is Working: Democrats Deserve Blame for Biden’s Border Crisis
Republican border-state strategy to send illegal immigrants to Democrat-run cities and states is paying off. On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sent a letter to President Joe Biden begging for federal aid. Importantly, she finally acknowledged where the problem is coming from. “This is a financial burden the city and state are shouldering on… -
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Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is a Blatant Act of Corruption
There’s simply no rational or legal explanation for Attorney General Merrick Garland naming David Weiss a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. Other than the most obvious one, of course. Garland contends that he’s “confident” the Delaware federal prosecutor “will carry out his responsibility in an evenhanded and urgent manner and in accordance with… -
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What My Experience Preventing Wildfires in Colorado Taught Me About Maui and Climate Change
The devastating fire that ravaged the Maui community of Lahaina has claimed the lives of over 100 people, and more than 300 remain unaccounted for. Many on the Left—Hawaii’s governor included—have claimed that man-made “climate change” is ultimately responsible for the most deadly fire in a century, but I know from personal experience that factors… -
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House Freedom Caucus: No Security, No Funding
With the clock ticking closer to the Sept. 30 government funding deadline, the conservative House Freedom Caucus this week outlined its official position on Washington’s latest spending debate. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus, spoke to The Daily Signal about why conservatives are insisting House Republicans honor their promise to reduce…